Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Quotes
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.
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The loss of a young life is always difficult to accept. But the senselessness of this act of violence makes it even more painful and all the more difficult to accept and comprehend.
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Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.
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I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
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Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.
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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.
